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Most of the main cast of the series.note 

CMC+ Bloopers is a Massive Multiplayer Crossover machinima by logbat99, inspired by Super Mario 64 Bloopers.

Set before version 8 of the game, CMC+ Bloopers is a series of interconnected videos revolving around The Chosen Many and their allies trying to stop Infinite and his minions from destroying the Crusade Modding Community, with hilarious results.

As a whole, the videos started as a few short 10-20 second videos, before moving into 6-player free-for-alls with CPUs fighting against each other. While both have continued (the former less so), the lore and characters involved have been consistently expanded upon when the story began after the tenth random match.

The random match videos also hinted that there was going to be an official game created using CMC+ V8's open build co-developed by YoinkySploinky1041, which contains a few additions not seen at all during the main series (including but not limited to Donald Trump) and is set in a timeline before the bloopers start. This explains the inaccuracies, such as Kali being a part of Infinite's team when she betrayed him in the videos.

As well as the traditional Recycled Soundtrack usage from source material, the game features original compositions by logbat99, YoinkySploinky1041, and Corrupt Crossover founder BadWolfMusic53.

(Note from Ed.: Because the credits have been slightly changed, and 85-90% of the music does not loop properly, this game will NOT get an official release in the future. Only that of the machinima.)

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Represented Series

    Characters 

Playable Roster

CMC+ V8

CMC+ V7

April Fools Build

Super Smash Bros. Crusade

Newcomers

Boss Collection

Characters are listed in the order they appear in Challenge mode.note 
  1. Akatsuki Blitzkampf: Blitztank
  2. Digimon Adventure: Greymon
  3. Digimon Tamers: Gallantmon
  4. Library of Ruina: Kali
  5. McDonald's: Ronald McDonald
  6. Elfen Lied: Lucy
  7. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish: Death
  8. M.U.G.E.N Original Generation: Golden Ronald (Optional Boss)

Non-Playable Characters

YouTube Videos Only

    Other represented series (music and stages) 

    Related Character Sheets (alphabetical order) 


Tropes

    Tropes in the machinima and random/requested matches 

    Tropes specific to the official game 
  • Adaptation Distillation: In the original game when trying to unlock Death, he had a unique Battle Intro where he would appear on a different version of Battlefield with his Sinister Whistling in the background, teleport onto the stage, say "I'm Death, straight-up", and turn the entire stage to pink flame with his HP bar appearing. Cue Leitmotif and the start of the match. In Bloopers, he still has the HP, but there's no unique intro. Either because the code does not work in the open build, or because the stage is the Portal from Mortal Kombat II. Averted as of the Challenge Mode update, though you can still change his unlock requirements by modding.
  • Adapted Out: In "All-Star Battle: April Fools":
    • Weegee doesn't appear because his appearance in the April Fools build stems from his Limited Animation version, whereas Bloopers gives him his Art Evolution appearance from 0.9.4. His Home Stage Nairobi still appears as the stage the Peanut Butter Jelly Time banana is fought on.
    • The superboss Golden Ronald is removed entirely.
  • Amnesia Episode: Prior to and during Lucy's Arcade mode, she loses memories, including that of why she is slaughtering clones and working for Infinite.
  • Anti-Frustration Features:
    • Due to their Joke Character status, Jimmy, Rock Lobster, Pig God and King are not playable and are instead seen as common or rare stickers.
    • Subverted for the characters in the Boss Collectionnote . When you unlock them, they are not exempt from the RNG, significantly making the game harder (Classic Mode for instance), especially with Death.
  • As the Good Book Says...: Death's reveal trailer is accompanied by a quote from the New International Version of the Book of Revelation.note 
    "[T]here before me was a pale horse!note  Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth."
  • Background Music Override: When Kali turns into Red Mist (press A+B), the music is replaced with "Gebura 3" from Library of Ruina. Double subverted as of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber's addition, as the music file has been removed from Kali's files and, when the Tower of Babel was added, replaced with "Venom Dusk" by Fixions.note  Either way, if you hear this music and Kali's not on your side, be prepared for a world of hurt.
  • The Bad Guy Wins: Obvious if the player chooses a villain's Arcade mode.
  • Bait-and-Switch: In Death's Boss Rush, after defeating five boss-like characters, the screen shows a simple fighter on the Versus Character Splash. It's as if the game is treating you to a Breather Level... nope, it's a Wolfpack Boss of three clones at once. (As explicitly stated by the cutscene.)
  • Boss Rush: Death's Arcade route, clearly based on Sephiroth's. Zig-zagged; one of the stages is against three clones at once, one of which is scripted to be John Googly.
  • Bowdlerise:
  • Breaking Old Trends:
    • Mario is not the first character on the character selection screennote .
    • Not all of the original 12 make playable appearances. Donkey Kong, Link, Samus, Yoshi, Ness, Captain Falcon and Jigglypuff are all currently missing from the game.
  • Brick Joke: The Scarlet Mansion's basement is a starter stage, containing the track "Dungeon Freakshow" from Pizza Tower. Nairobi is unlocked by clearing Arcade or Classic with Secret Character Weegee, and also contains "Dungeon Freakshow" ...except, due to the stage containing memetic music, it's SiIvaGunner's Beta Mix, a Pizza Tower-themed remix of "Revenge".note 
  • The Bus Came Back: Parodied given that this is not an official CMC+ version, but Windows 10, Mega Man, and Fritz, among others, return from V7.
  • Canon Foreigner: Donald Trump and Mr. Bear weren't in the bloopers.
  • Cast from Hit Points: Aubrey's headbutt forward tilt and Tien's Tri-Beam neutral-B; the latter fighter was cancelled for this reason.
  • Cats Have Nine Lives: Cat Girl Felicia starts her Arcade mode with nine lives, assuming the Player Difficulty is set to Default. She'll need them. Her Final Boss is Ronald McDonald, who has a difficult AI.
  • Character Select Forcing: Played with regarding Secret Character unlocks.
    • Downplayed with Shadow and BlackAgumon's unlock methods. Either they are unlocked after a set number of versus matches at random, or Classic mode is cleared with any Sonic character (originally only Sonic) and Agumon respectively.
    • A rare straight example is Donald Trump, whose unlock requirement is to complete Classic mode as Barack Obama on Normal or higher without continues.
  • Climax Boss: The penultimate stage of Death's Boss Rush has you fight Lucy. The cutscene before it has Death reach the ARC Complex ready for his reward after defeating Fake Master Hand... then he hears Lucy humming the theme from Elfen Liednote  and realises he's not finished yet. At the end of the fight, Death says "Get back in your cell, Diclonius Thirteen".
  • Comically Missing the Point: This poor Primid in Bowser's route.
    Bowser: [H]ave any of you seen a Chuck recently? He has a message to deliver!
    Primid: Chuck Norris?
    Bowser: NO, YOU FOOL! A Chargin' Chuck!note 
  • Composite Character: King Dedede has his Super Smash Bros. moveset and the personality of his anime counterpart. And not just in gameplay.
  • Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Prior to the "Phantom Train Update", the game mistakenly said that the theme for the Mother Beast (the Lusamine/Nihilego Fusion Dance) came from PokĂ©mon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon and not PokĂ©mon Sun and Moon. This has since been fixed.
  • Defeat Means Playable: In addition to the usual method of unlock fighters, the bosses have their own challenges through which they can be unlocked once cleared. Unlike the regular fighters, boss challenges can be re-fought.
  • Demoted to Extra: Assuming they weren't cut from CMC+ itself:
    • Being Joke Characters created for April Fools' Day, Jimmy, Rock Lobster, Pig God and King are only seen as common or rare stickers in the official game. Jimmy and Rock Lobster later go on to appear in Lucy's Arcade route, subsequently becoming random NPC fighters.
    • Flandre Scarlet, a prominent character in the YouTube series due to her being Remilia's sister, has her role reduced to a rare sticker and a stage hazard on the Scarlet Devil Mansion.
    • Another Touhou character, Sakuya Izayoi (Remilia's maid), appears as a rare sticker and her leitmotifnote  can be heard on the Scarlet Devil Mansion. She was cancelled due to her time-stopping ability.
    • Red Mist is reduced to a common sticker despite frequently appearing in the YouTube series' annual Tournament of Power, and would later become an NPC with the same Home Stage and versus themes as Kali, hinting that Kali and Red Mist are one and the same.
    • Bit Character Seu Madruga does not appear in-game at all, though he is referenced via a Palette Swap for Peppino.
    • The Duck Hunt Dog is playable in regular CMC+ (he was cut from V8) and ends up as an Interface Screw in Unbeatable in Bloopers.
  • Department of Redundancy Department: As with Mega Man in regular Smash Bros., robotic characters can be equipped with a Metal Box, or fought as a metal opponent in the penultimate stage of Classic mode (except on Very Easy), when they're already made of metal. And then there's Metal Metal Sonic (note that the image shows scrapped character Denpa Man).
  • Developer's Foresight: Weegee has code in his Arcade route that assigns a unique victory quote to Donkey Kong and his April Fools build variants, who are not in the game itself but can be modded in. It simply reads "Expand dong."
  • Development Gag:
  • Discredited Meme: In-universe:
  • Dual Boss: Make it through Classic Mode on Hard or Very Hard without continues, and Crazy Hand will join Fake Master Hand during his boss battle. The same thing happens during Death's Boss Rush on all difficulties.
  • Dummied Out: In Arcade mode, Infinite has a unique victory quote against clones of the long-removed Lord X, claiming the latter scares even him.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Starmon, one of the bosses, can appear randomly as an NPC in Classic and Arcade mode. Zig-zagged; he only qualifies if the player has not taken on his boss challenge yet.
  • Easter Egg: A comparatively common one. If Ronald McDonald is on the Devil's Machine (Challenge Mode, Death's Boss Rush or otherwise), Giygas will be influenced into saying unique quotes like "[fighter]... I'M LOVIN' IT!" that reference Ronald McGiygas.
  • Establishing Series Moment: Not counting the Random Number God nature of the clones, not a single character in the game has Blitztank as their first Arcade opponent. Except Death, and that's because his route is a Boss Rush.
  • Expy Coexistence: Greymon had previously established that Porky was a Trumplica. Come the official game, and Donald Trump himself is a playable fighter.
  • Fake Difficulty: In Death's Boss Rush, the two hands are fought simultaneously. Although they have 100 less HP than when faced in Classic mode on harder difficulties, their attack patterns are independent of one another. Worse, they're not the Final Boss of the route.
  • Final Boss: Infinite is this in many routes, with a few exceptions:
    • Korone Inugami has Greymon, who sees himself as a Notzilla. Korone's route's Central Theme is Japanese culture, including that of kaiju. Prior to the fight, Greymon even calls himself Godzilla, before Gallantmon communicates with him and tells him to calm down. He's fought on a large City Noir (the Animal Realm), referencing giant monsters' habits of destroying buildings. Korone still has Infinite as a Pre-Final Boss, however.
    • Felicia has Ronald McDonald. Keeping with Felicia's route's Central Theme of a Monster Mash, to mirror her home series, Ronald represents Monster Clowns, even though he doesn't look that monstrous (but his AI certainly is). He is fought on the Devil's Machine like Infinite usually is, which contains the infamously nightmarish Giygas in the background, adding to the monster motif. Unfortunately, the Ronald McGiygas Easter Egg is in effect. Like Korone before her, Felicia has Infinite as a Pre-Final Boss.
    • Infinite himself has Shadow the Hedgehog, who wants to deal even more damage than simply disbanding the Jackal Squad. Infinite's already mowed through several rogue clones, two hedgehogs, one soldier and a rogue Blitztank unit, and wants to complete his quest of destroying the CMC without any more obstructions. If the enemy is on Nightmare difficulty, Shadow is accompanied by a rogue Blitztank unit.
    • Death has a Death clone at the end of his Boss Rush. After defeating every other boss in Challenge mode except Golden Ronald, alongside Master Hand from Classic Mode and three clones at once, Infinite gives him one final task before Death is proven to be the strongest of the team: he must fight himself in a Mirror Boss battle. Also, since Death is normally the last character to be unlocked, it can be safe to assume that the Death clone is the Final Boss of the whole game.
  • Four Is Death: Prior to the Challenge Mode update, Gallantmon was the fourth of the antagonists to be unlocked, and was unlocked by completing four hundred matches.
  • 420, Blaze It: One song that plays in the menu is Macintosh Plus 420note .
  • Funny Background Event: Mentioned but not shown during Infinite's route.
    Gallantmon: Also, Sonic's busy eating chilli dogs in the background for some reason.
  • Gameplay and Story Segregation: In contrast to the "Diclonius Thirteen" example under Sliding Scale of Gameplay and Story Integration, the aversion of PokĂ©mon Speak is only present in Arcade mode cutscenes. In actual matches, the trope is played straight.
  • Guide Dang It!: The method to to be able to fight the Optional Boss in Death's Boss Rush. The enemy must be on Nightmare difficulty before starting the route, and Death must not lose a stock in the first four stages. After this, Golden Ronald replaces normal Ronald.
  • Hazy-Feel Turn: The premise of Infinite's Arcade route is that several clones are behaving in such a strange manner that they turn against him. He has to fight one in the ARC Complex and two in the Animal Realmnote . Then, upon returning to the ARC Complex after fighting Sonic, he is plunged into a free-for-all with three other random clones as the clones do not know which side they are supposed to be on. Tuns out Akatsuki used the Blitz Motor to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow, causing this behaviour. In the final two stages of the route, it's revealed that this effect isn't limited to clones. One or two Blitztank units, depending on the difficulty, also go rogue.
  • Holiday Mode: Each showcase video uploaded in December features Christmas-themed music in the menu and Super Smash Flash 2's Waiting Room (for example, SiIvaGunner's Beta Mix of Blizzard Man Stage).
  • Interface Screw: During the Unbeatable stage from Friday Night Funkin': Mario's Madness, Duck Hunt Dog, Bowser, Lakitu and Smick will appear in the centre of the stage to try to obscure the fighters.
  • Interface Spoiler: Looking into the characters section of the Music Room will reveal a few additional fighters, for example, Jimmy and Rock Lobster from the main series; they are AI-only, and appear at random in Classic and Arcade mode.
  • Joke Character:
  • Jump Scare: Part of the Content Warnings. Pingu has a Final Smash that effectively functions as one, as he creates a shockwave, and if he's close enough to an opponent, this video plays, covering the entire UI, only for Pingu to rush straight at the camera. It's a One-Hit Kill, as evidenced by the opposing fighter disappearing.note 
  • Leitmotif: Not only do characters have versus themes that do not come from their source material yet match it or their character, half the cast has two versus themes to add variety to the soundtrack, since logbat99 is the DJ of the game. Infinite is the only character with three.
  • Limit Break: Averted for HyperCam who has no Final Smash.
  • Mechanically Unusual Fighter:
    • There are certain characters like Akatsuki and Mikoto who have a power meter above their portrait. When A+B is pressed, they initiate a Limit Break version of their special move. However, when A+B is pressed as Mikoto when she is on Level 3, her entire Final Smash meter gets depleted.
    • For some reason, Baldi's back throw sends the foe flying forwards instead of backwards.
    • The Wii cannot crouch or taunt. In the latter case, this renders it unable to gain the "Fighter Stance" 100-point bonus in Classic Mode.
    • Pepsiman was cut because of his inability to grab.
    • The Noise's neutral air sends him backwards.
  • Monster Mash: The Central Theme of Felicia's Arcade route involves Felicia fighting monstrous characters to match the format of her home series. For example, Porky Minch represents spiders due to his Spider Tank, Wolf O'Donnellnote  represents... well, werewolves, Remilia Scarlet represents vampires, and E-123 Omega has a yellow filter making him a stand-in for Huitzil. (Interestingly, her route is the only one without any clones in it.)
  • Mood Dissonance: Fake Peppino's Home Stage is the bakery from Nekopara. Even if It Makes Sense in Context given that this is a visual representation of the other Fake Peppino's boss arena, which would later become Fake Peppino's self-owned restaurant, and not to be confused with the same restaurant seen in Corrupt Crossover, it's still quite silly to see two Cat Girls on the platform in which Fake Peppino is fought.
  • Mood Whiplash: To be expected from a walking, walking Memetic Mutation. Right after the usual Final Boss fight against Infinitenote , we get this line from Weegee:
  • Moveset Clone:
    • Barack Obama has one in the form of Donald Trump, who is not available in regular CMC+.
    • Conversely, the Wii is a partial one of R.O.B., who was in CMC+ but has yet to appear in Bloopers.
  • Note from Ed.: Before the Final Boss of Madoka Kaname's route:
    Infinite: Oh, I'm [Charlotte's] partner in crime. (Developer's note: No, he isn't.)
  • Optional Boss: Golden Ronald. His Challenge Mode battle is a superboss fight that does not unlock anyone immediately after it, and he is not fought in Death's Boss Rush except as a random clone. Unless the enemy difficulty is on Nightmare and Death has not lost a stock against the first four bosses, after which Golden Ronald replaces normal Ronald.
  • Overly Long Gag: When Donald Trump wins, his victory pose is a copy of Obama's (to be expected from a Moveset Clone). The voice line has been changed to Trump saying "China" over and over again for at least two and a half minutes.
  • Pass the Popcorn: After the scripted fight against Sonic in Infinite's Arcade route, Gallantmon reports that Sonic managed to find the chilli dogs he mentioned in Studiopolis Zone, and is eating them during the free-for-all with Infinite and three clones.
  • Pirate Episode: Chopper's Arcade route for the Player Character. In it, Chopper teams up with Foxy to defeat the clones invading the Going Merry. This even extends to The Mutiny in the penultimate stage due to Foxy's code being overwritten, despite Infinite ironically not knowing what a mutiny even is.
  • Play as a Boss: When you defeat them in Challenge mode. They even have their own Arcade routes.
    • Subverted for Starmon. Though semi-playable, he has a limited moveset, no recovery outside of the universal airdodge mechanicnote , and no smash attacks, making him an NPC. He doesn't even appear in Death's Boss Rush of an Arcade route except when the clones are being Random Number Gods. (He still has his boss challenge, but it's used to unlock Pegasusmon.)
    • Downplayed for Master Hand. He is a separate mod created by ThatOneGamingDude, and the Master Hand fought at the end of Classic Mode is referred to as "Fake Master Hand". Turns out clones can invade Classic Mode as well, intentional or not.
    • Subverted for the optional superboss Golden Ronald. He too only appears as a random NPC.
  • Random Event: Kali's Background Music Override. Instead of "Venom Dusk" by Fixions, there is a 1 in 256 chance that "Never Gonna Give You Up" will play instead.
  • Recurring Riff: A lot of stages have Sparta remixes in their music lists. For example, Sector Z features the Sparta Antimatter Remix.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Obama and Trump sport these in their losing sprite on the results screen.
  • Sequel Difficulty Drop: In-universe with John Googly's Secret Character unlock method. In the original CMC+, you were required to either complete Race to the Finish 2 as Joke Character Rock Lobster (V7) or find seven Dragon Balls in seven different challenges, in rather hard-to-find areas (V8). Here, you can just play enough versus matches.
  • Sequel Difficulty Spike: On the other hand (also in-universe), Death is not fought by completing 9 versus matches. You have to defeat him in Challenge Mode, and boy is his AI extremely difficult.
    • The fight against Fake Master Hand in his Boss Rush did this between updates. It's likely you will have faced him frequently in Classic Mode; as such his attacks are predictable and easy to avoid, even by Death's standards. So, what did logbat99 do when Chopper was added? Throw in Crazy Hand to turn the fight into a Dual Boss. (Yes, even on the easiest enemy difficulty.)
  • Shaped Like Itself: You can fight a Metal Metal Sonic in Classic Mode.
  • Sliding Scale of Gameplay and Story Integration:
    • Lucy's .dat file has "Diclonius Thirteen" as the CSS name. Because Giygas follows the CSS name of the character in his dialogue, he'll end up calling Lucy "Diclonius Thirteen". It's possible that Giygas does not know who Lucy is and refers to her by a code name. Also, even the game itself calls her Diclonius Thirteen in the Music Room and in her unlock message!
    • Speaking of Giygas, his stage is the Home Stage for Infinite and his henchmen (and Ronald McDonald), meaning he is somehow related to Infinite, who also calls Lucy "Diclonius Thirteen".
    • Whenever Peppino is in the same match as at least one villain, he gives off his routine pre-boss scream during the countdown. The Peppino clones fought in Arcade mode do the same when they realise that one of their leaders is about to beat the sauce out of them. This is likely because they have the genetic material of the real Peppino.
  • Soundtrack Dissonance:
  • Suspiciously Similar Song: Invoked In-Universe (because logbat99 is apparently the DJ of the game) with character versus themes:
  • 13 Is Unlucky: In addition to the "Diclonius Thirteen" case:
    • Metal Sonic is unlocked after completing 13 matches.
    • 13 songs play on Luigi's Mansion.
  • Unexpected Character: In-universe: the sticker descriptions for Korone Inugami and Felicia, and Ronald McDonald's sticker description and unlock message, have the writer express confusion over why they're in the series and, by extension, the official game.
  • Wake-Up Call Boss: Two in a row during Death's Boss Rush.
    • In stage 4, he fights Kali, with a dark red, blood-like sword that deals massive damage. And if he doesn't defeat her quickly before her meter fills, she unleashes a more powerful Red Mist-inspired second form.
    • Then there's Ronald McDonald in stage 5 whose AI we've gone over elsewhere. He's fought on the Devil's Machine, which contains the gimmick of the stage zooming out to reveal (Ronald Mc)Giygas' text on the screen, making it harder to see Ronald's explosive apples (unless you pause and use the camera).
  • Warm-Up Boss:
    • Jimmy can be this assuming the only eleven canon Arcade routes are played in the order suggested in the readme file (i.e. Sonic first). His only attack is a dash directly forward, and he has limited recovery.
    • The rogue Blitztank unit (as implied by the cutscene) in Death's Boss Rush. It is the largest character in the game, giving it a large hitbox, therefore rendering it susceptible to Death's large combos that deal high damage to it. Its attacks don't deal that much damage, save for the side smash in which it rams towards Death and the One-Hit Kill Final Smash. However, it takes a little over 200% for it to be launched proper.
  • Wham Shot: Play enough versus matches and you get a "challenger approaching" screen with Peppino's silhouette on it. Peppino himself is available at the start of the game. The unlockable character in question is his Evil Doppelgänger Fake Peppino.
  • What Could Have Been: Several characters were planned for the game but ended up scrapped for reasons not in line with the game. Examples include:
    • Mr. Game & Watch, Denpa Man and Hazama were cut because they produce null palettes when selected to be Arcade clones. In other words, they turn entirely black.note 
    • Tien's Tri-Beam neutral-B is Cast from Hit Points.
    • Loona's Final Smash has a Precision F-Strike on the sprite.
    • Lord X features a loud Jump Scare in his Final Smash.
    • Don Ramòn was removed due to the high difficulty of the AI.note 
    • Jin Kisaragi, Deku and Juri cannot pick up items without the sprites suddenly disappearing.
    • Sandbag was removed on the grounds that a Sandbag item already exists.
    • Pepsiman is unable to grab.
    • Shinki's Final Smash turns the entire stage red for the rest of the match. On certain stages burning buildings can be seen in the background.
    • Shinki, Neco-Arc, and Dark Star cannot Board the Platforms properly.
    • Jesus from the April Fools build is unable to be KOed at all. The reason? He can resurrect himself from the dead as stated in The Four Gospels.note 
    • Drobot's neutral-B does not do enough damage without Button Mashing.
    • Downplayed with Starmon, who was going to be part of the Boss Collection, but it was discovered he has minimal recovery. He was made into an NPC.
  • What If?: The Central Theme of Infinite's route is an alternate scenario, showing what would happen if his clones turned against him.
  • Wolfpack Boss: The three clones that gang up on Death in stage 6 of his Boss Rush. One of which is scripted to be John Googly.
  • Your Mom: In Zeraora's route.
    Zeraora: Roughly how big is [Infinite's] latest evil plan anyway?
    Greymon: (interrupting) About the same size as your mom.

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